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Yes, contemplation and observation are both essential. Contemplation is based off of observations which is why I saw experience is more fundamental as a basis for knowledge than just thinking. But contemplation seems to help me attain more insights than just simply observing without thinking.

It is true lol! He brings out more toxic masculine energy than healthy masculinity for sure.

He brings out the masculine energy in feminine males.

I did 501 pushups in 9 hours. I am sore. Even though Andrew Tate is a bully, he has some great things that people need to hear such as building self-discipline and self-reliance. However, Tate is more full of shit than gold. I was able to do 501 pushups because I wanted to prove to myself that I could do it and hold my 2 middle fingers up to Tate. I need to be more masculine in my life. I have been such a pushover and I am tired of it. I have been too afraid to talk and flirt with women. That happens no more. It is all about my frame. My frame is just to initiate and have a conversation and be friendly. My frame is no longer to flirt and get women wet but just to build a connection with them, share my passions, and ask them about theirs. I will try this out tonight.

Thread for forum users to share their best insights. Let’s start with mine. 1. God exists. Atheism is wrong. 2. Everything is made out of Intelligence. All is Mind. 3. Solipsism is true. 4. Time does not heal all wound. It is Love that heals. 5. Perfectionism = self-sabotage 6. Learning to distinguish intuition from anxiety 7. Heartbreak, why it exists and how to heal. 8. Buddhism is a belief and no belief is Truth. 9. Contemplation and curiosity is the ultimate tool for enlightenment. Meditation is a tool for falling in love with Truth. 10. Happiness is being aware of the Presence of God and being aligned with It. 11. Success is more important than happiness. If you aren’t successful in life, then you can’t be truly happy. If you aren’t happy, then you can’t be truly successful. By this logic, success is more important because if we aren’t happy, then we were not really successful. But happiness isn’t the most important emotion. If someone dies, do you really want to be happy? Or would you like to mourn and honor them? If someone violates your boundaries, do you want to be happy or frustrated? We have emotions for a reason. True happiness is having the appropriate emotion for the situation. It is all about balance. If you aren’t happy with your life, then you aren’t fully successful. Both are important. But happiness is conditional to your feeling about yourself. We are on this planet to create something meaningful. Success is having the courage to face your fears and create something meaningful.

I have expressed concerns with using ChatGPT in the past. I have taken on an experiment where I have utilized ChatGPT for the past few months. What I noticed shocked me. I noticed that I was becoming reliant on using ChatGPT to plan out my days, to ask it questions and to contemplate. What I didn't realize what I was doing was I was teaching myself to be less resourceful and less responsible for my critical thinking. You have to wonder, "How can I trust the answers ChatGPT gives me?" It is dangerous to utilize this tool because I feel like I am not alone in that I would utilize this tool but would fail to look up peer reviewed studies to confirm the answers I got. It is like I gave my complete authority away and used ChatGPT to contemplate instead of using my journal and brain to contemplate. What I have started doing now is using Google first to look up the answers to my questions and find 3 different sources. This method does take longer but it trains my brain to not take mental shortcuts. I believe ChatGPT was made for people with a low Need For Cognition (NFC). I have a feeling that people are going to become so dependent on it just like they are dependent on their phones for getting them food, planning their routes, and remembering information. Think about it, how many phone numbers do you actually have memorized? I want you to compare the amount you have memorized and ask you grandpa how many numbers he has memorized. It may shock you. My grandparents have more phone numbers memorized than I do because in today's world, we can function well with a lower NFC, we do not have a high need for memory because "Why remember this if I can just write it down or ask Siri to help me remember it?" Socrates was right about the dangers of journaling. That is why he did not write down anything because he believed that writing was not an effective way to communicate knowledge and believed it would make us less inclined to use our cognitive faculties to remember. Well, he was both right and wrong. Socrates was right that over-reliance on journaling/technology would hamper our cognitive faculties. But Socrates was wrong that writing/technology can be useful for memory and cognition only when utilize in a non reliant way. Socrates' argument against writing defeats itself on its head a little bit because everything I know about Socrates is through the writings of Plato. Without writing, many ideas, lessons, and people in history would be forgotten. So, it isn't just an all or nothing deal. ChatGPT can be a great tool, but people seem to glamorize it and think that it won't come with negative outcomes. It will. Socrates' point remains that with advanced technology and reliance of it, will come with the consequence of depleting our innate faculties of cognition and intuition. I want you to think about that. If you do not use your cognition and intuition and instead outsource your thinking to ChatGPT and other things, then you will become a slave to what you outsource. I rest my case, Rocky

You heard me. The YouTube algorithm is a matrix designed to enslave your mind. The simplest answer is to turn off your watch history. If you turn off your watch history, you disable shorts and the algorithm recommended videos. All these extensions and apps are a distraction. Just turn off your watch history. If you really like a video and want to watch it later, then click the like button or simply create a playlist called “watch history” that way you can have a watch history without having a watch history with all the recommended videos distracting you. If you use TikTok, I recommended turning the setting to open TikTok on mute. When you open TikTok, close your eyes for the first few seconds as the app opens and just spam tap in bottom right hand corner so it goes to your profile. That way, you won’t get sucked into the matrix. You should only be using TikTok and YouTube for primarily creating content and education. If you want entertainment, then go to the clubs and gym. It is important that you are search videos and not getting fed videos.

I agree. I am just pointing out the dangers. I know that it is inevitable and that AI will be as common as toilet paper one day, and like toilet paper, it will be very useful and helpful but also full of shit. Lol. I am amazed by the intelligence we are creating in the world. I am just pointing out the dangers. It’s kind of like Socrates. He was against writing, and he had very valid points. But it was Plato’s writing that kept his ideas alive. So, it is the same with AI in that I am stating the dangers of AI/technology through the use of AI/technology in which without AI/technology, I could not communicate in this way and talk about its dangers. I am just pointing out that there is a big cost. This cost could prevent you from accessing your full inner-cognitive capacities, or it may not. I appreciate you.

You can get to a point to where you realize that psychedelics, plants, and drugs are hallucinated by your own consciousness. Awakening isn’t found in a drug but in a shift in your consciousness. Can drugs create this shift? For some, it can. For some, it can’t. To say drugs produce awakening is an oversimplification. If it did, then everyone who took a massive amount of psychedelics would be Awake. But this does not seem to be the case. The reality is the self-deception is always a battle. It is possible that certain trips can open you up to more delusion. It is possible to be fooled by false insights. The question comes back again of how do you really know for certain what is true? Truth is the present moment and so much more. The only way I think to discern Truth is massive contemplation. The issue is that people take psychedelics when they are ungrounded, unstable, and don’t know how to truly contemplate. The litmus test is if you can’t experience Awakening right now in this present moment completely sober, then what kind of Awakening do you really have? Just a memory?? Well, then your Awakening then is no more actual than my last night’s dream.

😊🙏 That was the only part I respectfully disagreed about. But I am glad you kept it in because it helped me articulate additional thoughts.

The question now is, can you learn to think deeply on your own and fall in love with your own intelligence rather than the intelligence of ChatGPT? Do you see how if you are reliant on external resources, then it will be very hard to fall in love with your own internal resources? One of the most beautiful things in life is being able to fall in love with your own mind and intelligence. It just baffles me what kinds of insights I am able to derive on my own. Of course, I still use ChatGPT, Google, and Facebook, but I take the dangers of these tools very seriously and I now use them in moderation. The issue is people aren’t taking the dangers of technology and AI seriously. They don’t see the difference between a tool and a weapon. An object is both a tool and a weapon. I notice a lot of people focus more on the tool part of an object than they do on the weapon part. There is a power of reading through an entire article and book rather than having ChatGPT summarize it for you. I think ChatGPT will help us achieve great things, but it will also make us very cognitively lazy.

To play God’s Advocate, memory you could argue is also a tool. And like you said in the beginning, they can be good or bad depending on how we use them. Memories don’t cause trauma, it is our reaction and how we interpret the situation. Memory also can produce happiness as well. The issue still remains that we are becoming more unconscious to our own intellectual gifts when we delegate our inner cognitive resources to ChatGPT, FaceBook, Actualized.org, or whatever. Leo is great, but I see too many folks relying on him to contemplate for them. You know those folks who are asking for a video on such and such topic. I’m like “dude! Just contemplate it for yourself and study the shit out of that topic for yourself! You don’t need another human being to tell you the grass is green!” This is just one example. Leo gives a lot of value, but the ultimate value comes from yourself and ability to fall in love with your own intelligence.

That’s like saying “guns don’t kill people. People kill people.” What this argument fails to grasp is that they dismiss the dangers of a certain technology/weapon. Not everything is a tool. Guns and nukes are weapons. If they were tools, then you would keep them in a toolbox and not in a safe. The issue is that certain technologies bring about more unconsciousness in society. It is ignorant to assume that everyone is at a monk level control of their mind to where they are able to not allow themselves to go into unconsciousness. There is a reason why we have advertisements and other technology, because it works in getting attention and altering peoples consciousness.

It’s true. Tate isn’t posted as much, which is great. I just see a little hypocrisy that we cannot post Connor Murphy content but we can have a free day with Andrew Tate content.

I think she gives a good analysis of Tate Hate. Andrew Tate is not a good role model. It’s basically asking the Devil for advice and admiring Satan lol. Tate is full of ego. You can hear it in his voice and see it in his actions. I am glad you found motivation, but I feel like you haven’t found it from the right place. You gotta aspire to self-motivation and self- leadership and learn it.

I’m curious. Why do you turn down inner-happiness?

Being able to have sex with yourself and with the Universe is the highest act of love you can do. What if you could let the Universe come into your mind and heart? You don’t need a girlfriend. You can be happy without one.

Awakening is not found in a drug. It is found through insight into Truth. Truth isn’t a state of consciousness. It is all states of consciousness.

Leo’s conception doesn’t matter. It is a distraction. Your conception is more important. Your ability to derive your own answers is more important. Don’t kiss Leo’s feet. Kiss the ground he is standing on instead.

It’s not healthy to do this. Masturbation is actually healthy for you and reduces risk of prostate cancer. It also increases self-love and self- kindness. I see no issue if you are masturbating to porn or to your own imagination. I think where it gets toxic is if you are watching porn rather than cum and be done.

First start with becoming deeply curious and infatuated with Reality. Then, say positive affirmations such as “I love myself! I love the Universe! Thank you God!” Then, contemplate reality deeply. Then, become silent in meditation and let the Universe penetrate you with a mindgasm and heartgasm with Love and Insight.

I think the existence of God is pretty simple. Even as an atheist, I could not deny the idea of an intelligent source or first cause. The issue I had was that an all good, powerful God could not exist because of evil. But I realized that it has to exist because of balance and infinity. The simplest way to prove God is to meditate and become aware of the intelligence all around you. Realize that you are made out of intelligence. Evolution is made of intelligence. There is a higher intelligence at work that allows everything to exist in balance. You can feel the life force all around you. It seems foolish to deny Absolute Order and Intelligence. You are intelligent; therefore, there is a higher intelligence at work. An atheist is arrogant because they believe they are smarter than the Universe. No, the Universe is smarter than you.

Sex is more fundamental to reality than you think. If the purpose of the Universe is Love and Creation, then you can see that all spirituality is essentially about having sex with reality. The issue is that Freud’s notion of sex is too shallow. Instead of focusing on having sex with a woman, focus instead on letting the Universe penetrate you with Absolute Love. Reproduction is the essence of life. Reproduction is creation, connection, and love.

I had an insight that no amount of sex or romance will make you happy and fulfilled. After you have sex, you are left empty and wanting more. When you are with someone, it is easy to self-sacrifice. Love isn’t self-sacrifice. The happiest I have ever been was when I was alone, having sex with the Universe.

Great insights! 😊 Now, let’s go one step further and see if you can pinpoint the specifics of how your insights came about.